post about your high school life.

Just wondering. just post it right on this thread.

Hmm, by High School I didn't really have any friends left, they'd kind of moved on and left me behind. I picked a lot of fights, spent a lot of time in I.S.S. (In School Suspension). Was threatened with expulsion for shoving one of our football coaches. (he was out of line, ended up having to apologize to me). And the principal even called the police to the school after one particularly bad fight and they cited me for disorderly conduct.

I had no social life, I never went to any social events, I think I went to ONE party my entire time in high school. I would have dropped out, if I hadn't gotten into the work-study program, my last year I got to leave at noon to go to work.

I also stopped studying, stopped caring about my grades at all. School work always came so easily to me, I ended up keeping a decent GPA, but I could have done so much more.

So, yah, I wasn't a pleasant individual. I had a short fuse, and actually enjoyed that reputation. Kept people away from me. What I wouldn't give to have a mulligan on Junior High and High School.

In my country you are assigned to a high-school according to your grades in primary school and a list of favored high-schools made by you,you get to chose up to 100 high-schools if i remember well.The first 10 high-schools i've put on the list were the best for me (good high-schools and close to home) the rest up to 100 i've just put at random. But i was incredible unlucky because that year the admission grades had risen a lot , so i've ended up with the 11'th high-school on the list.To make things even worse that 11'th hs was on the other side of the city(and i live in the biggest city in my country) ,it was a 2-2:30 hours trip to my hs.So i spent more 4-5 hours a day only on the road , so if got lazy and stressed pretty quick , didn't manage to make any friends because i had not time and logistical possibilities to go to non-school activities. On top of all this i had a 3-4 times/week training plus first day of the weekend early in the morning i had math/physics tutoring for 3-4 hours.So i was completely drained ,in fact most of my SA developed in that period because i started losing my old friends and i was unable to make new ones,also i was starting to prefer staying alone in my free time and play videogames.

It was hell. I was bullied. I didn't like many people though I did have some friends. My SA was kinda bad but I didn't know what it was. I thought I was simply crazy.

I skipped school and forgot many homework assignments which resulted me finishing in a bad place when I graduated. I hated being in a classroom with a lot of people... I was mostly shy. People called me weird and crazy. I now accept that is me... I was the one to try to fit in but fitting in didn't suit me too well because I was still awkward and I didn't gain friends by doing so.

I participated in band in order to make friends... I cared about that to a point in high school. But when senior year rolled around, I was edging towards becoming very bitter about people and how they treat other people.

I didn't go to my senior prom or do any senior activities.

Nothing special~ -_-

But sometime I miss it~

Thats were my SA and Avoidance tendency disorder turned into a big problem for me. I remember that i never did my homework, just because of being scared to possibly be asked by the teacher to read the answers, even if i knew them perfectly.
In every single signaute(class) i was frightened that the teacher is gonna ask me something and I'm gonna fail like always, ofcourse i alway said "i don't know" even if I knew the answer. Everybody already started laughing if the teacher asked me, because they knew I didn't do it or I don't know the the answer, they didn't know i have SA tho, they only thought I was lazy.

I had some friends, but no real close friends, only school mates. I was famous for getting drunk really badly mostly on partys. It was just a way to escape from my ****hole called life.

Well thats it, I hated school so extremely much I can't even describe it.

I left home in eighth grade to join my sisters at an extremely conservative Catholic school in another state. I lived with a few other girls in a convent, and even though it felt like prison in many ways, I really miss being so closely connected to other people. We were all really good friends and spent ALL our time together. At school, I was adopted by the one most outgoing and extroverted person I have ever met in my life. I don't know why she latched onto me so tightly, but we were pretty much attached at the hip throughout all of high school. I even went to live at her house with ten of her siblings during my last two years of high school because I was sick of living at the convent. I liked having a best friend, but I always felt like there was something horribly wrong with me because I wasn't outgoing and friendly like she was. I was always extremely jealous, and would get secretly bent out of shape if I saw her striking up a conversation with someone new. Not that I was possessive of her, I just didn't understand why I didn't have the ability to even talk to my other classmates, much less laugh and joke around with strangers. I was an extremely quiet student, only ever interacted with my best friend and one teacher who became our mentor of sorts. I didn't have anything better to do, so I put all my energy into doing well academically. It ended up getting me a full scholarship to college, but I blew that my first year because I had no social skills and was so miserably depressed that I had to move back home. Fast forward ten years, I finally got my degree but now I'm having to work my butt off to pay off all those student loans I ended up having to get. My social anxiety hasn't gotten much better in the past twenty years, but at least I am forced to get out in the real world and interact because I have to make money to pay back those loans! There's no point or moral to this story, I'm just feeling sorry for myself today and feel like rambling on about it.

I wasn't able to make any 'friends' until highschool.
I sat at the nerd table-- they took me in with open arms after I was asked:
Pedich Edhellen?
and I responded:
Nostach be Orch gaer-- not that you smell, really... but that's all I know. haha

Ohhh, LOTR... ::

In grade 10, I went through some trauma and became agoraphobic. For grades 10 and 11 and part of 12, I didn't go to school more than one day per month and still, I managed to keep up with clubs, my studies and assignments.
I was in Yearbook, A/V, Young Writers, Anime club, Drama club... and I feel like I'm leaving some out but that honestly seems like a million years ago, so my memory is terrible! haha

I was a good student, somehow. Kept up above average grades. My teachers liked me.... except Mr. M. He was a poophead.
I was still bullied but to a lesser extent than in elementary school because people were moreso scared of me/ thought I was psycho and not the easiest target.

I worked 3 jobs (4-5 sometimes)all through highschool and managed to keep working most days even when I was agoraphobic because I needed to keep paying half the rent and utilities.

I was really sick in grade 12 and had to stay at the hospital for a couple of months. No one came to see me. haha

I graduated with everyone else, but something happened to keep me from leaving and going to college-- I stayed for an extra year; a 'victory lap' as it's called... continued to work even more than before- gained some extra credits, created a portfolio of work to submit with my college applications.
There was a new group of 'nerds' who were mostly made up of people I didn't know and kind of found to be loud and obnoxious, so I mostly stayed in the art room at lunch and worked on my sculptures on days I wasn't working at noon.
Nothing overly exciting happened that year--- other than; my boyfriend of 5 years dumping me for a week; then coming back and apologizing; begging for me back. Don't know what happened there-- never really questioned it.

School ended- I left town to move to the city and start at my choice college.
Sounds nice, right?
It only got worse from there. haha

I don't look back on highschool being terrible; although it was terrifying for me to be near people and no one understood agoraphobia and thought I was just 'faking sick to not go to school'. I still got picked on- still was physically and verbally beaten- still got called ugly and stupid on a regular basis.
But I thought myself an adult and put up with everything.
Highschool can be the best or worst time of your life-- but it's not the end of the road; only the beginning.

It was hell. I won't post, I've kind of moved on after 32 years, only just though.

My high school life was pretty silent. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't good either. I didn't do much simply because I didn't want any attention put on me. In fact, during my high school year, I got an A/B Award, became a candidate for the Honor Society (didn't enter and I'm glad for it), entered the Science, French, and Spanish Honor Society, got accepted into a National Honor Society headed by the Nobel family (which meant that the head of the Nobel family knew who I was), although I'm not sure if I'm still in it or not, and became really popular, if I'm to believe my friends. For the most part, I kept my head in a book and usually went to the library to read or just to avoid being around people at lunch time. My grades were good in the beginning, but they began to decline my Junior and Senior year. I had a few embarrassing moments, but I've moved on (or so I like to tell myself:. But that's enough of my exploits!

Years 7 and 8 were not too bad. Years 9-12 sucked and ruined my life.

My high school life? What life.

My high school life basically sucked. 7th and 8th grade were probably the worst. That's when I started developing SA, I had a really crappy group of friends, and I got teased constantly, both at school and at home. (A LOT went on during this time, but I'm keeping the story very short and to the point.)

9th grade was a little bit better. I had a new group of friends that treated me better (except one girl, I'll get on that), I became an editor for Yearbook (which was the only thing that kept me happy during high school), and I changed quite a bit physically. After being depressed for so long, over the summer after 8th grade, I dropped 25 pounds. I broke out of my shell a little bit more and started volunteering at different places and working. I actually felt a bit happy during this time, the happiest I've felt in a few years.

Then come 10th grade, the teasing at school was almost as bad as in 7th and 8th grade. Most of that teasing was caused by my Biology teacher I had, my gym teacher, and my "friend." Halfway through this year, I was also diagnosed with food allergies, and so that did a number on me. I quickly sunk back into depression, gained all my weight back (yes, despite having food allergies ), stopped volunteering and stopped working. I basically isolated myself from everyone, yet again.

11th and 12th grade were so-so. They definitely were not bad compared to before, but they weren't great either. By then, I had enough with my school so I decided to go to a tech school for Culinary Arts. With this, I spent half the day at school, and then took the bus up to the tech school, which was a half hour away. This place was great. I made a few new friends, and got along with pretty much everyone. My instructor was so great, however my secondary instructor was awful. Last year she tried failing me. Long story, not explaining it. Just going to say it involved 3 meetings, the last one including my mom, both instructors, my guidance counselor, my high school principal, and the principal of the tech school. It was a mess. Despite that though, I still had fun in that class and I miss it.

Anyway, this past year I finally cut ties with that "friend." She was so destructive, contributed a lot to my social anxiety. I felt so much better though, and still do. I also became editor-in-chief for Yearbook and basically just spent my time volunteering for that. In my free time, if I wasn't working on homework or pages, I either hung out with my Spanish teacher or my Yearbook advisor. They were such great people.

So that's basically my high school life in a nutshell. Yeah, it's a long story.

I rarely went in. I missed 156 days of my final year.I didn't like school because I didn't blend in and the other kids didn't accept me. First they slagged me because I was taller than them. And because I had the emotional response of a biscuit, they decided I was stuck up and thought I was better than everybody else. They made that assumption because I never replied to them when they slagged me. I did watch them when they were saying **** about me. I stared at them but I never said a word. I went through my entire education without ever answering a teachers question or ever saying a word.

I liked years 7-10 but after that it sucked. I made a horrible friend who treated me terribly and made me really upset.
I used to be really hyperactive and even quite funny. I loved messing around. But meeting this friend was when I realised I had some sensitivity issues because I let her walk all over me, I didn't know how to stand up for myself. I was the recipient of jokes from people all over the year yet I also had a lot of friends. People either liked or disliked me I guess lol.

Whats interesting is that a lot of people seem to have made a friend in school that didnt treat them well. Its like people had allies in others who were bullied and became friends by default but then the allies became the bullies. I hope all said "friends" have been flushed by now. I think I forsee a splinter thread in this..

Jewel said:

Whats interesting is that a lot of people seem to have made a friend in school that didnt treat them well. Its like people had allies in others who were bullied and became friends by default but then the allies became the bullies. I hope all said "friends" have been flushed by now. I think I forsee a splinter thread in this..

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I ended up ditching my bad friend after I went to Uni and made new friends. I didn't need her rubbish friendship anymore. What's funny is that it almost turned into role-reversal. I was never rude to her, but she lost a lot of friends after school because she was so mean to them all (though she treated me the worst by far), and she would then start trying to butter me up by telling me I was such a good friend etc but by that point I saw through it all too easily

I was lucky to go to the same high school as a couple of my friends from middle school, so I had like 3 or 4 friends there (though I didn't see them that much with the scheduling and all). Freshman year was rough, I got picked on quite a bit. Not really even bullying, just nagging and people trying to embarass me because I was so quiet/timid. Sophomore year was better as far as school goes, but my home life wasn't great and that was when I started to go into a shell. I stopped talking to everyone at school and was like a ghost for the rest of my time there. I did everything I could to avoid everyone. Ate lunch in the library, looked at my feet constantly, went weeks at a time without saying a word in school (it became a game I played with myself), etc.

twiggle said:

I ended up ditching my bad friend after I went to Uni and made new friends. I didn't need her rubbish friendship anymore. What's funny is that it almost turned into role-reversal. I was never rude to her, but she lost a lot of friends after school because she was so mean to them all (though she treated me the worst by far), and she would then start trying to butter me up by telling me I was such a good friend etc but by that point I saw through it all too easily

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You have to wonder what happened to her at home that she treated people like that at school. My mam used to say 'little monkey do what big monkey do' and it does seem like a learned behaviour. Kids who are critical of other kids usually have critical parents. When you're an adult its different but for kids they mimic. I think that if they mock, theyve been mocked, if they call names, theyre called names, if they are just mean then someones being mean to them.
Arent you just so glad that school is in the past now phew